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Technical legislation providing the Minister of Education with a direct line for policy direction and oversight of Tusla in respect of education welfare functions has been approved by the Cabinet. The proposed changes to the Child and Family Agency Act 2013 follow the transfer of education welfare f
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Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, failed to refer 365 cases of suspected child abuse in Kerry to gardaí for investigation, an internal review has revealed. Concerns around potential under-reporting of abuse allegations was first raised within Tusla last year, and an internal review has sinc
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Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, has been fined €40,000 by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) after it sent a letter containing allegations of abuse to a third party who then uploaded it to social media. This is the second fine that the DPC has issued under the EU General Data Protection R
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Tusla has been fined a total of €75,000 for breaching GDPR rules in the first fines of their kind in Ireland. The fines were handed down by the Data Protection Commissioner following three investigations into issues notified by Tusla in November 2018, October 2019 and November 2019.
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Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, is set to challenge a court order to pay €35,000 to a solicitor to help find suitable accommodation for a vulnerable 17-year-old boy. The agency was ordered by a District Court judge to pay €35,000 to a solicitor representing the boy's guardian ad litem
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Plans to require childminders to register with Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, have gone out to public consultation. Children's Minister Dr Katherine Zappone yesterday launched the Draft Childminding Action Plan, which sets out proposals for improving access to high quality and affordable early
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A backlog of hundreds of unidentified files in a Tusla office, including urgent cases involving convicted sex offenders, was the fault of "organisational failure", according to a damning report seen by The Irish Times. The newspaper has seen a copy of a report which was furnished to Government in Ma
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